There are some terrific things to eat in New York. The challenge is squeezing them all in. I think I’ve found the solution. A few months ago Daniel Humm evolved the a la carte and degustation menus of his flagship restaurant on Madison Avenue into a 16 course food tour of the Big Apple; of …
Quest for the best
Faviken is not a restaurant that you casually decide to go to on a Tuesday night. The location may have something to do with it. More than 600 km north of Stockholm it nudges up towards the Arctic Circle. Visiting this 12-seater restaurant on a 24,000-acre hunting property in Jämtland requires some planning. First, there’s …
Last night in London lots of the world food glitterati crowded into the Guildhall to eat canapes and drink champagne and celebrate themselves. It’s been referred to as the Golden Globes of Restaurants- perhaps for the questionable mechanics of the voting system (well explained by Cara here) but you can’t deny that the San Pellegrino …
If there was a dish that typified our experience at Le Chateaubriand, this might be it. Beneath the wafts of radish and turnip is a piece of dorade, cooked so softly that eating it reminds me of nuzzling a baby’s neck. The sauce is a twist on the French classic beurre blanc, but with the …
Sometimes the adage of ‘fresh, seasonal and local’ can get overworked to the point of senselessness- a notion that’s been chewed over and spat out more than a tough piece of steak. Then there are places where the philosophy chimes as clear as an alarm marking the way out of sleep. That’s what we found …
